Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [ANON.] Considerations Addressed to Professors of Christianity. 8 pages. Small 8vo, re-bound in modern marbled paper-covered boards; margins closely cropped with no loss of text. London: Ritchie and Samells, 1792

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rare. only one copy at auction in the last 20 years. Only two copies located in estc. A direct attack on the English clergy that seemed to not only avoid addressing the issue, but even advocated for slavery, a favorite topic for Frederick Douglass a half century later. Sabin, 102825. A copy appears in Charles Heartman's mammoth African Americana catalogue for 1948, see lot 92.